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Lying Cat Amigurumi Pattern (from Saga)

What’s Saga, you ask? Stop reading my blog right this minute and go check it out at your local comic shop… if you like breathtaking art and mind-blowing stories, that is. I was late to discover the series, but the minute I did I started work on my own Lying Cat.

Okay, maybe it was a few minutes later.

Fine, it took me a few hours, but look how she turned out!

Here’s the pattern to make her: I might make the head bigger if I make another one. Note that the mottled blue yarn and gold yarn are bulky weight and the gray yarn is worsted weight… that’s just what I happened to have in my stash, not a conspiracy to make her more difficult to make. If this is confusing, just use worsted weight and a size F/3.75mm hook for everything and you’ll end up with a proportional but smaller Lying Cat. As shown, she measures 15cm/6″ nose-to-rump and 25cm/10″ nose-to-tail.

Stiches used include single crochet (sc), half-double crochet (hdc), increase (inc), invisible decrease (invdec), and slip stitch (sl st). I don’t own Saga or Lying Cat, so please feel free to use and share the pattern, but don’t sell it or the amigurumi.

What you’ll need:

yarn in blue, grey, and gold/yellow

black felt

needle and black thread to attach felt

yarn needle to sew pieces together

wire to make her limbs and tail posable (optional… omit this if anyone might be putting her in their mouth)

Head/body:

bulky mottled blue yarn, size H/5.00mm hook, work in the round, stuff as you go

1) 4 sc in magic ring (4)

2) sc x 4 (4)

3) inc, sc x 3 (5)

4) inc x 2, sc x 3 (7)

5) sc x 7 (7)

6) sc x 3, hdc x 4 (7)

7) sl st x 3, hdc x 4 (7)

8-11) sc around for 4 rounds (7)

12) sc x 3, *hdc x 2 in next sc* x 2, sc x 2 (9)

13) sc x 3, hdc x 4, sc x 2 (9)

14-18) sc around x 5 rounds (9)

19) sc, hdc x 4, sc x 4 (9)

20-21) sc around x 2 rounds (9)

22) *sc, invdec* x 3 (6)

23) invdec x 3 (3)

24…) sc around (3) until tail is long enough (I made it approximately 10cm/4″ long)… thread a wire or pipecleaner into the tail before closing it off, if you want to make it posable